Docker Job Trends in South Wales

Docker
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Docker skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 32 47
Rank change year-on-year -14 +15 -15
Permanent jobs citing Docker 13 43 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 1.97% 3.93% 4.70%
As % of the System Software category 26.53% 43.88% 35.56%
Number of salaries quoted 12 42 29
10th Percentile £46,519 - £42,500
25th Percentile £48,369 £23,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £32,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +76.92% -45.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £62,500 £50,874 £68,497
90th Percentile £64,750 £65,000 £78,750
Wales median annual salary £57,500 £32,500 £51,802
% change year-on-year +76.92% -37.26% -5.81%

All System Software Skills
South Wales

Docker falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills in South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 49 98 90
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 7.42% 8.95% 13.22%
Number of salaries quoted 42 69 80
10th Percentile £35,000 £23,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,875 £27,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,949 £32,500 £50,552
Median % change year-on-year +56.77% -35.71% -3.71%
75th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 £68,497
90th Percentile £80,000 £65,000 £73,750
Wales median annual salary £50,500 £34,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +46.38% -23.33% -10.00%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Job postings citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Docker in South Wales

Docker
Salary Trend in South Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Docker.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Docker

Docker
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Docker in South Wales over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Docker in South Wales

Docker
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 16 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cardiff -2 8 £55,000 +69.23% 8
Bridgend - 4 £57,500 - 3
Neath Port Talbot - 1 £60,000 -
Docker
Wales

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (38.46%) BizTalk Server
2 4 (30.77%) IIS
3 3 (23.08%) Tomcat
4 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) AWS
1 10 (76.92%) GitHub
2 8 (61.54%) Azure
2 8 (61.54%) GitHub Actions
3 7 (53.85%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (30.77%) Serverless
5 3 (23.08%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (23.08%) Amazon S3
6 2 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (7.69%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (7.69%) Azure AKS
7 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (7.69%) GCP
7 1 (7.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
7 1 (7.69%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) SQL Server
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (7.69%) Delta Lake
3 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
3 1 (7.69%) Metadata
3 1 (7.69%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
2 4 (30.77%) Octopus Deploy
2 4 (30.77%) TeamCity
3 3 (23.08%) Git
4 2 (15.38%) Artifactory
5 1 (7.69%) MLflow
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Site Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) .NET
2 2 (15.38%) Node.js
3 1 (7.69%) Jest
3 1 (7.69%) Keras
3 1 (7.69%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (7.69%) Metaflow
3 1 (7.69%) NumPy
3 1 (7.69%) Pandas
3 1 (7.69%) Playwright
3 1 (7.69%) PySpark
3 1 (7.69%) PyTorch
3 1 (7.69%) React
3 1 (7.69%) REST
3 1 (7.69%) scikit-learn
3 1 (7.69%) TensorFlow
3 1 (7.69%) Vitest
3 1 (7.69%) Web Services
3 1 (7.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (7.69%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Windows
1 4 (30.77%) Windows Server
2 2 (15.38%) Linux
3 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 11 (84.62%) DevOps
3 9 (69.23%) Containerisation
4 5 (38.46%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (38.46%) Software Delivery
5 4 (30.77%) CRM
5 4 (30.77%) Deployment Automation
5 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
6 3 (23.08%) Collaborative Culture
6 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
6 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (23.08%) Software Testing
6 3 (23.08%) Static Application Security Testing
7 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (15.38%) Integration Testing
7 2 (15.38%) Microservices
7 2 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) Python
1 5 (38.46%) SQL
2 3 (23.08%) Java
2 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
3 2 (15.38%) Bash
4 1 (7.69%) C
4 1 (7.69%) C#
4 1 (7.69%) C++
4 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.69%) DBS Check
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) QA
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 12 (92.31%) Terraform
2 8 (61.54%) Kubernetes
3 4 (30.77%) Ansible
4 3 (23.08%) Grafana
4 3 (23.08%) Prometheus
5 1 (7.69%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
1 4 (30.77%) Pega
1 4 (30.77%) VMware
2 3 (23.08%) Guidewire
2 3 (23.08%) Salesforce
3 1 (7.69%) Databricks